There is no doubt that the future of remote gambling lies in mobile gaming. Therefore all leading online casinos offer their best games on mobile handsets. The mGaming Summit decided to host the first ever annual mGaming Awards this year with the objective of rewarding the top performing operators and innovators in this industry. The awards were presented on April 25 at The King’s Fund in London and were attended by the top professionals in the gaming industry.

The leading online gambling operator Paddy Power was adjudged the best in three out of the seven categories. These categories included the Best Mobile Sports Betting Operator, the Best Mobile Casino Operator and the Best Gambling App. In the mobile casino operator category Paddy Power faced stiff competition from All Slots, bwin.party, 32Red and William Hill. After their stupendous performance Paddy Power said, “We’re delighted to have won three categories at the mGaming Summit Awards. Many of our staff work tirelessly to provide our customers with the best mobile offering on the market and it’s fantastic to see their efforts recognized with these awards.” The mobile gambling services of Paddy Power are powered by Mobenga. Christian Rajter, chief executive officer of Mobenga, also expressed his happiness at the turn of events. He said that winning was all the more special because the vote was a combination of industry executives as well as the public.

The operator mFortune took home two awards, those for the Best Mobile Poker Operator and the Best Bingo App. The Innovations in Mobile has 19 short listed candidates, much more than in any other category. Some of them were Bet Victor App, bwin.party multi-Platform Offerings, Microgaming Mobile Casino Software, Paddy Power Games and Paysafecard Group’s Mobile Payment Solution. The winner however was Betfred Mobile.

The final category was Best Mobile Billing App. This was won by Optimal Payments. Their product enables merchants to take payments across different devices while ensuring security for the customer and managing fraud for the operator. Danny Chazonoff, Chief Operating Officer of Optimal Payments, said, “We are very pleased to be recognized for our efforts in bringing mobile solutions to our gaming customers.”

The mGaming Summit Awards were sponsored by Microgaming. Microgaming is in the forefront of mobile gaming through its partner Spin3. Matti Zinder the CEO of Spin3 was in the judges’ panel. Speaking about the mGaming Summit, Neill Whyte, Head of Product Channels at Microgaming, said, “This event allows us to be ideally placed to meet and greet existing operators, and to discuss the key issues which are driving mobile gaming.” Microgaming used mGaming Summit to launch its latest suite of 11 HTML5 games with ‘swipe and tap’ interfacing and rich-featured graphics. The games included blackjack, video poker and roulette and popular Microgaming slots like Tomb Raider, Thunderstruck and Mermaids Millions.